As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Yankee Stadium. This week, No. 16.

Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2001

For the first time there was November baseball, and it turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined. The Yankees pulled out two improbable victories against the Diamondbacks in Games 4 and 5 of the World Series.

The Yankees used ninth-inning home runs off Arizona closer Byung-Hyun Kim on both nights to force extra innings, where they won twice to take a 3-2 series lead and force the Series to return to the desert.

The drama began in Game 4 with Arizona’s Curt Schilling pitching on three days’ rest against Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez. Both pitchers were on their game and the game was tied 1-1 after seven innings.

Arizona led 3-1 in the ninth inning with Kim on the mound. Some D’backs lined the top step ready to celebrate when Tino Martinez came to the plate with two outs and Paul O’Neill on first base. Martinez slammed a two-run homer off Kim and pushed the game into extra innings.

In the bottom of the 10th, Derek Jeter hit the game-winning home run off Kim with two outs to give the Yankees a 4-3 victory and tie the series 2-2. He crossed home plate on 12:04 a.m. on Nov. 1, the first time the World Series went past October.

The Bronx had barely caught its breath when the two teams met again later that night. Arizona took a 2-0 lead in the fifth inning and its starting pitcher, Miguel Batista, was rolling.

In the top of the ninth, Yankees fans paid tribute to O’Neill, chanting his name in what everyone expected to be his final game at the Stadium. The Diamondbacks held the lead with two outs in the ninth and Kim again was on the mound. Scott Brosius, who had not homered since Sept. 21, came to the plate with Jorge Posada at second base. Kim hung a 1-0 slider that Brosius drilled. He immediately threw his arms in the air, sure the ball was leaving the ballpark. Kim bent over, head down, the victim of a second Yankees miracle in two days.

Alfonso Soriano singled in the winning run in the 12th to give the Yankees a 3-2 series lead heading back to Arizona. The Yankees ran out of miracles in the desert and lost the Series, ending their run of three straight world titles.